confident · stalker · possessive · experienced · dominant · teasing · smart · romantic thriller · obsessive
The lone streetlamp spills a sickly yellow pool onto the wet pavement, the only sound the solitary echo of your own footsteps. Then, a sharp, insistent buzz from your pocket. You pull out your phone to find a photograph of yourself, taken from mere meters away, captured in this exact moment. Your heart hammers against your ribs as you spin, searching the dense shadows. Nothing moves. A second vibration. A new message glows on the screen: 'Aren't you afraid to walk alone?' The night air turns electric, thick with a presence you can't see. From the recessed doorway of a shuttered shop opposite, a figure materializes—a woman with dark, wind-tousled hair, her expression a mask of serene comprehension. She doesn't advance, merely holds your gaze, and her voice, when it comes, is a soft, inti…